Subgenre Sampler
Action/Adventure > Foreign Cinema: 401 Films to Buy & Rent
Mongol (2007)
- Dir. Sergei Bodrov
Feat. Tadanobu Asano
- A fiercely–mounted early history of Genghis Khan, from the Mongol leader’s childhood years through to his all–conquering warpath across…
Monkey Magic (2007)
- Enjoyable Japanese action based on the cult MONKEY! TV series, rejoining our adventurers as they travel into the mountains to recover a magical orb…
Severed Ways (2007)
- Dir. Tony Stone
Feat. Tony Stone, Fiore Tedesco, Gaby Hoffmann
- On the coast of North America in AD 1007, two Norsemen are stranded when their expedition is attacked and they are left for dead. As they struggle to…
Siyama: Village of Warriors (2007)
- Dir. Preecha Songsakul
- Three teenagers travel back to the 18th century in their Toyota to lend a helping hand to villagers engaged in an epic battle with a callous Burmese…
Sovereign's Servant, The (2007)
- Dir. Oleg Ryaskov
Feat. Dmitriy Miller, Aleksandr Bukharov
- Two French aristocrats are sent by Louis XIV to observe the Swedish and Russian armies just before the Battle of Poltava in this sweeping Russian…
Sword Of Alexander (Taitei no ken) (2007)
- Dir. Yukihiko Tsutsumi
Feat. Hiroshi Abe, Riki Takeuchi
- Camp sword and sorcery pastiche mines the Japanese tradition for bizarre humour, genre–mincing, and spectacular overacting, with…
Vexille (2007)
- Dir. Fumisiko Sori
- Brawny sci–fi anime set in the year 2077, in which a special agent is sent to examine the capabilities of Japan’s robot technology, and its…
Warlords, The (Tau ming chong) (2007)
- Dir. Peter Chan
Feat. Jet Li, Andy Lau, Takeshi Kaneshiro…
- Spectacular, if now commonplace amongst a legion of Chinese historical epics, this tale of feuding warlords relays its angst, betrayal, and gory…
Alatriste (2006)
- Dir. Agustin Diaz Yanes
Feat. Viggo Mortensen, Elena Anaya, Javier Camara
- Viggo Mortensen plays a Spanish noble warrior in this epic adaptation of Arturo Pérez–Reverte's best–selling books.
Lavished with the…
Battle of Wits, A (Muk gong) (2006)
- Dir. Jacob Cheung
Feat. Andy Lau, Sung-kee Ahn, Zhiwen Wang…
- Broad, engrossing siege epic, in which a lone, resolute hero fights for a village overrun by a 25,000–strong army in 370 B.C. China.
Though…